As future Artemis astronauts explore the moon, a new high-tech backpack will assist their mapping as they step into the unknown. NASA does have high-definition lunar maps of the surface, from orbit,… [+3012 chars]
Drought caused this Iowa corn crop to fail in 2012. Credit: USDA To assess how climate warming will change risks such as crop failures and wildfires, it’s necessary to look at how the risks are like… [+5086 chars]
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agencys Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earths upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigatio… [+2142 chars]
An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the university's McDonald Observatory … [+5233 chars]
Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the International Space Station during Axiom-1. Credit: NASA Edinburgh, 27 April 2022. – Axiom-1, the first all-private astronaut mission to the International Space S… [+1247 chars]
University of Utah paleontology professor Mark Loewen helped catalog 13 new dinosaurs. As a specialist in Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs, he is part of the scientific team at the Utah Museum of Na… [+8014 chars]
To avoid becoming a post-coital snack, male spiders leap away from the female. Insert obligatory one night stand or walk of shame joke here. Scientists recorded 155 instances of normal orb-weaving sp… [+1726 chars]
image: Although quantum theory is probabilistic and in general permits different results for a measurement (left-hand figure), independent observers monitoring the same system see the same result (ri… [+10896 chars]
While the debate between solar energy and nuclear energy continues on Earth, some people are looking to the stars. When it comes to space exploration, scientists are always trying to optimise the wa… [+3021 chars]
Elon Musks SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for Nasa yesterday including the first black woman making a long-term space mission, Jessica Watkins. It is also the fir… [+1235 chars]
With the safe return to Earth of the first all-private mission to the International Space Station, Axiom-1, on Monday 25 April, and the successful launch of Nasa’s Crew-4 mission on Wednesday 27 Apri… [+3209 chars]
The sun is moving into the hyperactive phase of its roughly 11-year cycle when sunspots, solar flares and all other sorts of tumultuous heliocentric happenings become more common. Case in point: A vo… [+1883 chars]
